My First Project

This is probably the first project I’d done and it was when I worked at Mostek. I used a piece of scrap perfboard, some TTL ICs and sockets, and a few Old Style LEDs – big, old, current-consuming, 1982, RED LEDs. And some wire-wrap wire – it was all I could find, so that’s what I worked with.

1982 TTL Dual Dice - Top View

The circuit is from Don Lancaster’s “TTL Cookbook”. It has worked for years and years, and uses almost any 6 to 9 volt Wall Wart. Unfortunatly, about 10 years ago a wire or two came loose from underneath (a rats-nest of misused wire-wrap). I finally got around to fixing it and actually replacing a rare burned-out LED.

A Rats Nest of Wire-wrap Wire

I have no idea why I chose Wire-Wrap wire, other than it was something we had laying around or scrapped. It’s some of my earliest, gloppiest examples of soldering that I have. Wish I had that old Radio Shack P-Box that I build back when I was about 12.